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Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 Review - 45nm Era Begins
CPU Intensive Apps : WinRAR, POV-Ray & CineBench

Published on Monday, October 29 2007 3:30 pm by VRArchiver

Filed under: Archives, Processors, Reviews

We check out some really CPU intensive and cache hogging applications like WinRAR, POVRay and CineBench. As evident, when the applications gets more CPU intensive, the performance delta between the 3GHz processors widen. More cores and cache certainly helps here.

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